Hints to Parents ...: No. I[-VI], Temas1-6

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Página 28 practise the tender heart and mind in good, and thus lay the foundation deep and
firm before evil be introduced. We may then reasonably hope that the love of
good, and the hatred of evil, will be strong and lasting, Whereas by an injudicious
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Página 48 Should he not likewise punish evil deeds ? Child. Surely he will punish them, for
he hates evil ; and it is injurious to his creatures. Mother. Now, my dear child,
impress deeply upon your mind what you have just said. God hates every thing
that ...

Página 79 Is not that a sign that there is much evil in you ? Child. I fear so. Mother. Then you
find that you know what is good, and yet do not always do good, but sometimes evil. This is common to all men. They are all inclined to evil. Do you think that ...

Página 96 He who has thought, spoken, and done much good, will receive much good ; he
who has thought, spoken, and done much evil, will receive much evil. Oh ! how
needful is it, my dear child, that we avoid all evil. Does not God know all that men
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Página 100 Mother. If so, beware of ever thinking of what is evil, or of doing wrong, lest God
should cease to love you. Commune often with yourself, and say : My kind
Creator gives me every day so many good things; what I eat and drink comes
from him.

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Página 52 - From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...

Página 95 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him, and honour him.

Página 31 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.

Página 60 - It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.

Página 96 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

Página 91 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

Página 34 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.